Bachelor Clayton Echard Fires Back at Fan Criticism He ‘Said the Same Thing to Multiple Women’ During Fantasy Suites Dates

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Explaining himself. Clayton Echard is speaking out about the backlash he received after sending Susie Evans home on the Tuesday, March 8, episode of The Bachelor.In an exclusive preview clip obtained by Us Weekly, the Missouri native, 28, spoke to Kaitlyn Bristowe during the Thursday, March 10, episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast about the criticism he’s faced from fans — and how exactly he reacted to his own behavior when he watched the episode as it aired.“I compartmentalized, I guess, too well to the point where I was just all in with these women,” he told the former Bachelorette, 36, of professing his love to all three finalists: Susie, 28, Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey. “And that was the thing people said … ‘He’s saying the same thing to multiple women.’”Clayton countered these claims, alleging he was earnest in telling the three women he loved them.“I’m only one person.

I mean, I don’t have a different vocabulary depending on who I’m talking to,” he explained. “So I felt these feelings of love and they were genuine — if anything I felt so similar with every one of the connections that that’s why the same things were being said, because I felt that way genuinely.”As for the former football player’s reaction when Susie became upset after he confessed that he slept with Rachel, 26, and Gabby, 32 — and told them that he was falling in love with them — Clayton explained that too.“All three of the women said, ‘I want you to explore the other relationships fully,’ almost verbatim,” he told Bristowe, adding that he “assumed” that everyone would be OK with the arrangement — and soon realized that was a “big mistake.”“I looked at it like if these women stick around and watch me kiss other women in front of them — which